On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 03:03:30PM -0400, Tredeau, Peter wrote:
> I have a CVS repository on a RH 6.2 Linux machine. I am trying to connect
> to
> the repository from a Win2K client through Samba. I am seeing this error
> message
I might suggest that this is a Bad Thing(tm). I would *strongly* suggest
you not use CVS over a network file system at all, and especially one
mounted from a Unix box.
Switch to using a server mode instead (pserver, via rsh, or best of all,
over ssh).
You will have fewer problems in the long run.
Issues you can run into are:
1) Performance of network file system vs native file system/server
(client/server will send less data over the wire than network file system
ones).
2) Stability. While others will claim that CVS has been safe for network
file systems for years, I would argue that network file systems are not
always CVS safe (I can probably still regularly crash CVS over NFS, even
through it wasn't CVS's fault).
3) Running the risk of trying to use CVS from mulitple platforms with
different notions of end-of-lines. If you ever want to check out this
repository under both Unix and Win32, you're going to have some serious
issues.
> Any idea whats wrong ?
> Thanks for any help
What is your CVSROOT like? Is this a clean directory? It almost looks to
me like you copied over a repository from another machine and then tried to
do a cvs co on top of it. Though I would *think* cvs would ignore any
existing CVS/* entries when someone does a co.
> > C:\sbox>cvs co swill
> > cvs checkout: in directory swill:
> > cvs checkout: ignoring CVS/Root because it specifies a non-existent
> > repository \
> > \gringo\cvsroot-cbs
> > cvs checkout: in directory swill:
> > cvs checkout: ignoring CVS/Root because it specifies a non-existent
> > repository \
> > \gringo\cvsroot-cbs
> > cvs checkout: Updating swill
> > cvs checkout: in directory swill:
> > cvs checkout: ignoring CVS/Root because it specifies a non-existent
> > repository \
> > \gringo\cvsroot-cbs
> > U swill/test_file
> > U swill/test_file1
> > U swill/test_file2
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